The NPB Project Promotion Committee met today to gather all their thoughts on the Inter-league schedule and ultimately came up with four possible options: the current format of twenty-four games, the CL's suggestion of an eighteen game season, and two twenty-four game schedules with various tweaks to shorten the length of the IL season. The options will be presented at the next executive committee meeting on the 8th.

"Whether we go with one of the current options, or spend more time discussing further options because it is too late to make changes for the 2013 season will hopefully be decided during the next executive committee meeting," said Rakuten Eagles' acting owner Tomoharu Inoue.